BRITISH citizens as young as 19 have been signed up to fight “shoulder to shoulder” with Israeli troops now mounting a bloody invasion of the Gaza Strip, a human rights group warned yesterday.

The death toll mounted in Tel Aviv’s latest vicious ground offensive on the besieged strip yesterday with dozens of Palestinians and at least one invading soldier reported dead.

But anger mounted at the recruiting agents luring dozens of British citizens into the ranks of the Israeli Defence Force behind the onslaught.